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Are there any upcoming meetings with WPP and Dell officers in which I might be able to attend to understand the program in greater detail?

is Project Da Vinci started its operation? when is it taking away everything from other agencies?

Thanks

Dear Mr. Jones, Mr. Jarvis, Ms. Hausladen and Mr. Segall:

I recently read about Dell's Project Da Vinci. Congratulations! 

I neither work for Dell nor for WPP...yet.  However, my creative side is insatiable  It's my forte'.  With fourteen years of on-air radio experience and an additional seven years of stand-up comedy locally here in Austin, I confidently believe I have something to contribute to Dell, Project Da Vinci WPP and its shareholders. 

And, in return, working for Ms. Hausladen and Mr. Segall would provide me with the daily creative outlet I crave sooo much every single day.  Heck, I even practice writing jokes and monologues on my off time just for the fun. Who does that?  Well, it is Austin and we are all pretty weird collectively.

Valerie, Ken: be prepared, a tsunami of creativity is heading your way.  By the way, I have Project Da Vinci's first TV commercial. 

Ladies and Gentlemen: thank you all for your valuable time and consideration.  I hope to be working for you all soon.

Warm regards to all, 

Ken R. 

It was suppose to start on March 1st, 2008, no?

It´s delayed ? or it has gone back ? 

Good day,

 I am looking for contact details to send certain cooperation offer to Project Da Vinci. So if the moderator or anyone else can provide email or telephone numbers with whom to talk I would appreciate that. Tried sending to the email address above but obviously this email is for hirings and we are looking for someone responsible for product marketing.

Regards,

Aida Martirosyan
 

I think that what Dell is doing centralizing its efforts is very practical and will be efficient. Not only because it sounds as a good plan but because some times ago I had a chance to work on few of Dell projects and saw how the inefficient were the efforts and how the chain works.

Regards,

Aida Martirosyan

European Economic Chamber 

 I ´m a Regional Account Director in South Latin America in one of the WPP group global agencies.

I´m working for a global account ( i can only say it´s a FMCG) in an integrated marketing services or what some one called a "Thru-the-line" service.

In our daily work we keep in mind all the stakeholder: consumer, buyers, sales affiliates, distributor and wholesalers. For a similar job, Project Da Vinci should have the most capable people and the attitude in this type of agency job: account people is easy. Creatives (ATL & BTL) is not so easy....

I think the project is an excellent strategical move from the Dell´s top marketing officers and will gave increase brand value, business growth in sales and a lower agencies fees expenditures (having one global AOR), keeping the budget.

I think the project Da Vinci is so interest and challenging that maybe I applied when the recruitment starts and all the positions are define.

Congratulations again Mr Casey

Best "Merde" (do not say the opposite word...) 

Martin

form the bottom of the world 

hey,

it doesn t mean WPP 's media agency wil handle the media work, for instance Mediacom ?

 Will it be the Da vinci 's media entity only, or they wil have connexion with WPP agencies ?

hasta luego

Like many, I'm interested in finding out who is handling this business. I represent a community of business leaders who mold public opinion and but lots of IT services.

I remember the time when IT Outsourcing started (1989). Over the last two decades, the idea of IT outsouring has gone from being a crazy idea ("how can you outsource your crwon jewels") to one that calls for seriously using the power of expertise in the vendor community ("Sourcing capabilities with a portfolio of vendors"). I believe that this is a big, bold and innovative idea that may revoloutionize marketing services.

I posted an entry about it on my blog.  I am looking forward to tracking the developments--not only this initiative but also follow-on responses by other firms to gain from rethinking pooling of marketing talent. Best Wishes.

Count me in....I would love to find out more about the media department for this new and exciting agency. At this point in time does anyone know where a resume should be sent?

Thanks,

Lisa PC

I too have a similar interest in working for the new marketing communications agency - DaVinci!  Where will it based? What is the timeline to full functionality? What is the process for finding and hiring talent to support the new organization?

 Thank you!

Can someone tell me where to apply to work @ DaVinci?  Is the Agency going to be located in Texas?

First lets take the hype out and look at the facts -

THE AGENCIES OF TODAY CANT DELIVER that is the biggest issue.

Second, Dell is about to spend 4.5 B on marketing. They will trust themselves but no an agency with that kind of money. Since they dont want to build and agency in house (investment is huge) so lets call it partnership but in essence, buy an agency. Agencies focus on Awards, Dell want to focus on ROI.

Last but not least, DELL needs to remember, it is all in the product. The killer to a mediocare product is a brilliant ad campaign.

But what do I know  :))

Finally,  some focus and clarity of messaging/branding.

It all makes sense to me.

Any news of who at WPP will be running the new entity?

Where will it be based? Who's conducting creative search ?

Just heard about the news and was quite skeptical with the my initial understanding of the same. But after seeing the video and the rationale behind the idea.

 I can't help but think, that this is the evolution of advertising. Would surely bring in the business synergy with the agency. And as mentioned earlier, the marriage of sorts would definitely benefit DELL tremendously.

 Very impressed with DELL for having taking it to the next level and moving beyond traditional vendor approach.

 
Regards,

Sid